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    GENUS BARTLE-FRERE

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A living fossil or so-called 'green dinosaur'; genus or subfamily of primitive nut-bearing trees thought to have died out 50 million years ago; a single specimen found in 1994 on Mount Bartle Frere in eastern Australia; not yet officially namedplay

    Synonyms:

    Bartle Frere; genus Bartle-Frere; green dinosaur

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("genus Bartle-Frere" is a kind of...):

    dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

    Holonyms ("genus Bartle-Frere" is a member of...):

    family Proteaceae; protea family; Proteaceae (large family of Australian and South African shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and clustered mostly tetramerous flowers; constitutes the order Proteales)

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